Tag: the Church
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The House of God
2 Samuel 7:1-6 “Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said to Nathan the prophet, ‘See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.’ And Nathan said to the king, ‘Go,…
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Boomerangs
Ephesians 5:28 “He who loves his wife loves himself.” There are some things in the Bible that are so easy to pass over. If you are a Christian, you’ve likely read the passage above many times. I know I have. But have we really stopped to think about it?! Has it ever caused us to…
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The Glorious Mystery of “Christ in You”
Colossians 1:27 “the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” The mysteries of God are wonderful things, but they are things that are only…
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“Conspiring” to do Good
1 Samuel 19:1 “And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David.” Are you familiar with any conspiracy theories? There are a lot of them. I remember all the talk for years after President Kennedy was shot. There were studies done and commissions formed to investigate whether…
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A Holy Unity
1 Samuel 11:7 “Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.” One of the marks that should distinguish the people of God from the people of this world is unity. Everywhere we look in the Scriptures we see the church described by this theme. For example, the church is…
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Koinonia
Philemon 6 “I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.” In the verse above Paul talks to Philemon and the rest of the church that met in his house about “the sharing of your faith.” The…
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Living Water
2 Corinthians 7:13 “We rejoiced . . . at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.” One of the signs of a healthy church is the effect that that church has on those who visit it. We see this in the verse above which speaks of Titus’ visit to the…
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Separation
2 Corinthians 6:17-18 “Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.” Have you ever found yourself in a situation…
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Streams in the Desert
Numbers 10:29-32 “And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, ‘We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, “I will give it to you.” Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the Lord has promised good to Israel . . . And…
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The Unfruitful
Mark 11:12-19 “On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he…
To Encourage You 